Stephanie Rosenbaum

Summary

Stephanie Rosenbaum is CEO of TecEd, Inc., a 10-person user experience consultancy. TecEd clients include Cisco Systems, PayPal, Varian Medical Systems, the IEEE, Ford Motor Company, and Google. She contributed an invited chapter on "The Future of Usability Evaluation" to a volume on Maturing Usability (Springer HCI Series) by the European COST294-MAUSE research community. Stephanie has presented (panels, workshops, tutorials, papers, and/or SIGs) at almost every ACM SIGCHI conference since 1990; she was co-chair of the CHI 2006 Usability Community. A member of HFES and the UXPA, Stephanie is also a past vice-chair of ACM SIGDOC. Recent UXPA presentations in 2011, 2012, and 2013 include: * Investing in User Research: Deciding what research to perform * When UX Teams Become Stage Designers: Emulating field research in the usability lab * Choosing Research Participants: Neglected methodology, negotiation challenge Stephanie's academic research background includes anthropology studies at Columbia University and experimental psychology research for the University of California at Berkeley, from which she received an MA in the philosophy of language. Specialties: User experience research (ethnography, contextual inquiry, competitive benchmarking, questionnaire design, and more), interaction design, information architecture